Black Oral HIstories of Beaufort County

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Georgia Smallwood: Learning life lessons at a young age.

Posted May 16, 2025 • 01:22:59

Born in Martin County, North Carolina, Georgina Smallwood grew up on a farm. Her father was a sharecropper, and she and her siblings helped to work...

The life story of James H. Smallwood

Posted May 7, 2025 • 00:51:14

Born and raised in Beaufort County, North Carolina, James H. Smallwood continues to live on what remains of the ancestral piece of property that his...

“Someone has always been looking over me.” The life story of Bishop Frederick Hopkins

Posted April 30, 2025 • 00:51:22

75-year-old Frederick Hopkins lost his father at the age of three. He credits his mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother for their tireless hours...

Florence Lodge: A true trailblazer

Posted April 22, 2025 • 01:24:18

At 88 years of age, Florence Lodge has spent a life questioning, and if something needed changing, she was always there. This meant helping others...

Betty Randolph: Seeing the world on both sides

Posted April 8, 2025 • 02:49:43

Betty Jean Barr Randolph was born in the small rural town of Greelyville, South Carolina, in 1942. As she said, “If you were Black, you were human,...